The Faithful God

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Hosea 1:10

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This passage is part of the conclusive part of Hosea's message to the Israelites through his children

Observe The Word:

Children of living God

Reflect The Message:
Often i do not live the way God expect me to be and God does treat me with tough love. But God's action is always redemptive and uplifting.

Keyword: God's love,redemptive act

Develop a new walk in Grace:

Does my action over other is redmptive as well?

Prayer


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The Way Of Salvation

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Acts 1:38

Watch The Context:
The listener to Peter's sermon was asking them "what should we do then"

Observe The Word:
Repent - the same message preached by John The Baptist, and Jesus in the Gospel - God doesnt change His message

Reflect The Message:

Repent in greek means turning to the opposite direction. That imply a decisive action for change. The process led us to see God as the direction of life. Do i have made that decision?

Keyword: Repentance

Develop A New Walk with God

I want to see you God


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Standing On The Promises

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Acts 1:16

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The verse is part of the statement given by Peter after they finished their prayer together

Observe The Word

Scripture had to be fulfilled - the expression of confidence in the Bible (which in their time is the OT)

Reflect The Message:

The Scripture is an integral part of the early church other than prayer. The disciple of Jesus, do not neglect the element of studying the Bible together with confidence of the fulfillment of the message inside the Bible. Peter's expression was a direct reference to the Bible.

The question for me, how much time do i really spend my time with a word of God? do i really claim that the scripture will fulfil its message without fail? Both for the personal message and prophetic message?

Keyword: Bible, promise

Develop A New Walk With Grace

To learn and spend more time with the Bible


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The Purpose of Life

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I continue to read Songs of Songs but on the same time my burden for my church leads me to also read Acts of Apostle, and learn what New Testament Church actually like. So for now, there will be time when the focus of the devotion is jumping here and there.

Acts 1:4-8

Watch The Context

This is the statement of Jesus answering the question of His disciple before he was taken up to heaven.

The disciple now convinced that Jesus is indeed a redeemer for the nation and He has promised them the power through the Holy Spirit to proclaim The Kingdom of Heaven

Observe the word:

Both statements of Jesus (verse 4,5) and (verse 7,8) Were expressed in very similar pattern. Jesus will start the pattern with statement of Authority of The Father as the owner and the decision maker of all things - then followed by the work of the Holy Spirit in them, and through them. At the center of both verses, is the question of the disciples (verse 6) that conclude the whole point altogether - the restoration plan of the world. God's plan is focused on restoration - returning the world to its original condition before sin. However the question was addressed in "you" and pointing to Jesus as the centre of this restoration.

Reflect the Message:
1. The disciple really knows the purpose of their life. To be part of God's plan for the restoration - but the centre of that restoration is not themselves or evn the world but Christ. Jesus become the centre of redemption.

2. The disciple know this for they know the Savior - Jesus

3. Despite this, the only way they can proclaim the message is when the Holy Spirit is with them - Holy Spirit works is to lead people to Christ

4. When my life is led by the Spirit - its only lead me to Christ and acknowledge my nothingness and Jesus complete work of redemption in me.

Keyword: Holy Spirit

Develop a new walk in Grace

To ask the Holy Spirit to work in me, daily


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The Uninteresting Activity

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This morning i am interested with the text on Acts. Not that Songs of Song is no more interesting but i was inspired to read the first chapter of the book of Acts so this is the text of today

Acts 1:14

Watch The Context

The Disciples of Jesus just returned to Jerusalem after witnessing Jesus was lifted to Heaven

Observe The Word

One Mind - unity in purpose and passion

Prayer and Supplication - real time prayer

Reflect The Message

The early church do not depends so much in finding a new method of witnessing or making a church. They were not so much interested in the status that they have to gain, or building that they have to obtain, and so on and so forth. Their mind was focused on one thing and that is the coming of Holy Spirit. However, their gathering was filled with prayer.

Prayer is indeed opening the gate of Heaven to us.

The question i have to ask myself is, how serious am i with prayer?

Keyword: prayer, early church

Develop A New Walk In Grace

Project: Daniel's Project

To pray like Daniel - (at least) 3 times a day for this whole week

Prayer: LORD, help me to pray


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The Perfect Bride

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Songs of Solomon 5 : 1-7

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The Song was sung in the wedding night of the couple describing the beauty of the bride in "anatomically" detailed description.

Observe the Word

Eyes - doves - beauty, purity, sincerity

Hair - mountain goat - smooth and silky

Teeth - Sheep - white and complete

Lips - Scarlet thread - red, appealing

Mouth - lovely

Forehead - Slice of Pomegranate- smooth, and shining

Neck - tower of David - strong, and straight

Breast - leaping gazelles - repeated frequently throughout the whole book - ultimate beauty

Conclusion - verse 7 - perfect

Reflect the Message:

Christ bride is a perfect bride: Christ sees his bride as a perfect unblemish bride, despite the fact that His bride is us, sinful, inperfect bride. He sees us in this way because Christ sees us in the eyes of grace.

I have to see my wife in this eyes of grace the way God sees me.

Keyword: perfection, praise, love

Develop the New Walk in Grace:

To see everyone through the eyes of Grace

Prayer: Lord, thank you for seeing me from the eyes of Grace. To see me with love and accept me with the same love. Help me to be able to do it to those around me.




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Love That Will Not Let Me Go

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Songs of Solomon 3:4

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The bride is searching for The Groom all over the town Until the watchmen asked her. Watchmen is the guard of the outskirt wall of the city. Indicates the distance of her search

Her mother's bedroom: another euphimism of reproductive activity, but also indicates the cycle of that activity. From her mother womb to her own

Observe The Word

Hold to him tightly and do not let him go - in need and in love

The Hebrew word for hold in this context came from the expression that can be translated as "strong grip"

Reflect the Message:

When we finally found the love of our life, it is like the greatest treasure we can ever discover. In this text, the bride discover it after she had encounter the watchmen. When we met Christ in our life how do we perceive that dicovery? The Gospel describe that "the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried on the field and when someone discover it he sold all his possesion and buy the land" How precious is Jesus for you?

In relational level just like the text describe (husband and wife) how do i see my spouse? Really as precious as the bride sees him or i look at her/him just as another option for happiness?

Keyword: Love to Jesus, love to spouse



Develop the walk in Grace

Project: to love Jesus and do not let Him go

To love my wife just as well

Prayer:

There is no way that i can be able to love Jesus in this manner unless i surrender all other things that distract me from living a live for Him. help me o LORD



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